Blog GOP Big Spenders, But I Repeat Myself By: Doug Bandow 11/06/2007 Finally, after nearly seven years of approving every big spending bill to hit his desk, President George W. Bush is occasionally saying no to budget…
Blog Social Engineering Doesn’t Work, Even in China By: Doug Bandow 11/06/2007 It doesn’t matter how often politicians fail. They keep coming back with grand new schemes for transforming their own, and often other people’s, societies. And…
Blog LOST Treaty Is Step Backwards for U.S. Interests By: Hans Bader 11/05/2007 The Wall Street Journal had an editorial this weekend describing the ways that the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) would undermine America’s security…
Blog Sugar lobby sweetens pols’ pot By: Fran Smith 11/05/2007 Terrific front-page article on the influence of the sugar lobby in the Washington Post on Saturday by Dan Morgan recounting how the sugar industry’s…
Blog Patrick Lynch’s Smelly Deal in R.I.’s Lead-Paint Suit By: Hans Bader 11/05/2007 CEI rated Rhode Island attorney general Patrick Lynch the fifth-worst attorney general in America in its The Nation’s Top Ten Worst State Attorneys…
Blog Yet more ado about noting By: Angela Logomasini 11/05/2007 Yet another study is out suggesting that air pollution is a considerable risk to our health, as highlighted in today’s Washington Post. This time…